Record numbers access emergency food

270,000 people per month eat meals from emergency food boxes. That's half of Portland's population. Of those, 92,000 are children. Since the beginning of the Great Recession in 2008, emergency food box distribution has increased 41 percent.

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“I was born dead. The umbilical cord was wrapped around my throat. They got me going again, but there was a lack of oxygen to my brain, so I have brain damage, a learning disability and a heart murmur on top of it."